We were up early today because we didn’t want to miss the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Rick Steves, who wrote the books on travel in Europe said the changing takes place at 10:45 but to get a good view visitors needed to be there by 10 a.m. We got there at 10… Read more

Our main mission today was visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich where the prime meridian is located. That’s where the earth is divided into east and west but it is an arbitrarily chosen line of longitude. We took the tube from High Street Kensington, which by now we were used to, and disembarked at… Read more

We were off early this morning to visit the Tower of London. When you hear that you might think Big Ben or other towers but the Tower of London is a castle built right on the Thames. Construction began in 1066 by William the Conqueror, who was fearful of an invasion. Nothing like it had… Read more

There are several things we don’t want to forget that has occurred to us during our trip thus far: *Often when you are in a restaurant, you go the bar to order your food rather than a waitperson coming to the table. Also, it’s not unusual to pay for your food when you order it.… Read more

For trains to reportedly be on time in Europe, the train from York was 20 minutes late and was late according to the engineer because of heavy rains that were interfering with track signals. We grabbed an Uber from our hotel rather than walk to the train station, even though it was only a 10… Read more

Today in York, history came alive. Our first stop of the day was the York Minster. It’s really a cathedral. It is massive in structure. And it has some six million pieces of stained class in its massive windows. But what really made the realization of history is that it took more than 250 years… Read more

We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Edinburgh. This morning we still had several things we wanted to do before heading to York, a two-hour train ride south. We were up early, packed our stuff and checked out of Kildonan Hotel, which agreed to store our luggage until we returned for it. We hopped bus 3,… Read more

We had a full day of seeing Edinburgh on Tuesday. We started the day by visiting Edinburg Castle, an amazing site. The castle rests high over the city on an old volcano mound. It was built in 1103 and has been attacked 26 times, making one of the most attacked places in the world, according… Read more

Picking up where we left off yesterday due to needing sleep. We only got about 2 hours of sleep on the plane because of a crying baby. We did get to the other side of the airport and the plane took off at 6:08 pm EDT. In Raleigh it was 80 degrees and sun. We… Read more

THE GOOD NEWS IS WE ARE IN SCOTLAND AFTER A 3 HOUR LAYOVER IN HEATHROW AIRPORT IN LONDON. MORE TO COME, GOT A TOUR NOW. Most of us are so accustomed to routines that we don’t realize how much they affect our lives. It’s only when those routines are so drastically changed that we miss… Read more